If you’ve been with me for awhile you’ll recall when I first shared that Morgan had developed vitiligo. At the time I was mad, confused and felt guilty like it was something I had done. We all know how people can be sometimes by staring and asking questions in a very rude manner. I decided to educate myself more about vitiligo and I made sure that my main focus would be on celebrating how unique my daughter is and not harp on her differences.

Morgan

Over the last 3 years not only has her self esteem not wavered, I feel like she is so much more outgoing (and definitely more outspoken). From the beginning, I wanted to make sure that Morgan was able to see other people from all over the world just like her! And can you believe that as big as the vitiligo community is it only makes up 1-2% of the world’s population. Thanks in part to Instagram I’ve had a chance to “meet” some pretty amazing people.

A little over a week ago one of the people I follow shared an image of Amy Deanna. This beautiful young lady was just named as the first CoverGirl model with vitiligo! Can I just tell you that I screamed for joy like she was family?!?! For over 20 years CoverGirl’s trademark slogan had been “Easy, breezy, beautiful…CoverGirl!” Last fall they released their new theme I Am What I Makeup. This new branding is meant to evoke confidence, power, inclusivity, and self-expression. [Read more…]

Seriously, Old Man Winter has been doing a number on my skin lately. I live in Tennessee which most of you would think that means “Hey she lives in the south, what is she belly aching about?” Yeah, that’s what I thought too when I moved here from Washington, D.C.

Now as one who loves sharing all of my crazy nail art and at-home manis, having dry, crusty nails is something I don’t want and it’s sure as heck something none of you want to see. For me my skin regimen changes drastically once the temps start to drop below 45-50. During this time the heat is on full blast and that just means forced hot air is sucking up every bit of moisture that I might have had to begin with. Now if you’re fortunate enough to live in a climate where you’ll pretty much get all 4 seasons in a week, you have to pay even more attention to how you deal with your skin. Julep was awesome enough to send me this awesome infographic for tips on how to winterize your nails: [Read more…]

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First off…welcome!!! Thank you all so much for joining me today as Wine’ing Momma makes her debut! This has been a long time coming and I’m so happy that my new look and name have finally happened! Now it wasn’t easy and there were many days along the way that I was looking like the image below! But I survived!!! Thank gawd for wine! LOL

I kept thinking about how I wanted it to look and what type of vibe I wanted to give to all my fun readers. There are so many “experts” out there in social media and after a while I swear they all started to sound like the adults on Charlie Brown. Do this…don’t do that… -_- [Read more…]